Carl Andre - biography

“Every time you work, you have to do it all over again, to rid yourself of this dross.  I suppose for a person who is not an artist or not attempting art, it is not dross, because it is the common exchange of everyday life.”

“I mean, art for art’s sake is ridiculous.  Art is for the sake of one’s needs.”

“My art springs from my desire to have things in the world which would otherwise never be there.”

“A place is an area within an environment that has been altered in such a way to make the general environment more conspicuous.”

“It is futile for an artist to try to create an environment because you have an environment around you all the time.  Any living organism has an environment.”

“My art will reflect not necessarily conscious politics but the unanalysed politics of my life.”

“Matter as matter rather than matter as symbol is a conscious political position, essentially Marxist.”

Carl Andre has appeared in the following films:
Las Vegas Nights (1941)
Buffalo Bill (1944)
O.S.S. (1946)
The Paleface (1948)
Samson and Delilah (1949)
Streets of Laredo (1949)
Branded (1950)
Dallas (1950)
Carson City (1952)
The Duel at Silver Creek (1952)
The World in His Arms (1952)
Untamed Frontier (1952)
The Man from the Alamo (1953)
The Charge at Feather River (1953)
Thunder Over the Plains (1953)
Man Without a Star (1955)
Strange Lady in Town (1955)
The Violent Men (1955)
Tall Man Riding (1955)
Three Violent People (1956)